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The Collapse by Pellworm
Fandoms: Ancient Greek Religion & Lore, The Odyssey - Homer, HOMER - Works, Ὁμηρικοὶ ὕμνοι - Ανώνυμος | Homeric Hymns - Anonymous (Songs), The Iliad - Homer, The Epic Cycle - Fandom
30 May 2026
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"Sing to me, O Muse, sing of the time the high bronze screamed. Sing of the day that Wisdom herself bled red. Tell of the Great Father, whose mind became the storm because he could no longer hold the heart of his daughter. Sing of the goddess who fell and the man of Ithaka who stood upon the shore of ruin, reaching out to catch her."
OR: The Odyssey ends with a thunderbolt hurled at goddess bright-eyed Athene’s feet and a hurried peace. Most of the rest of the Epic Cycle is lost to us in history. When Wisdom falls to earth as a mortal, the King of Ithaka must navigate the bitter political fallout of his home while guarding a once-invincible goddess now forced to survive on the power of cunning and human connection.
This is an original retelling of the aftermath of the Odyssey, grounded in Bronze Age historical and mythological realism.
Important: This will be a series of "books" that should be read in chronological order. It is split so every individual work can have a different set of Characters and - if necessary - relationships and additional tags.Series
- Part 1 of A⬩ta⬩na 𐀀𐀲𐀙
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01 Aug 2026
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they kill us for their sport by xiaolongbaobei for aziluv, cozyrogue
Fandoms: Ancient Greek Religion & Lore, Αίας - Σοφοκλής | Ajax - Sophocles
24 Jul 2026
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“You are Eurysaces’ father,” she says. “You are Teucer’s brother. You are my husband.”
A father must have safe hands. A brother must not leave a brother to answer another man’s shame. A husband must not make his wife stand between him and a sword.
or: a study of ajax and all the ones he's loved and all the ones he's lost. from childhood to the end of the trojan war/sophocles' ajax. companion work to smooth is the descent.
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- Part 2 of smooth is the descent
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25 Jul 2026
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death is the only water-- by EolasEadrom
Fandoms: Greek and Roman Mythology, Medea - Euripides
02 Sep 2016
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We are the children of power/ these bones will burn like a live flame/ we were never made to cower/ do not bend, let go of your shame/ this is not your moment of death-
This is your life.
(A character study of Medea, witch and princess and mother, and her husband Jason, the man who crafted an empire from her ashes)
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20 Jul 2026
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GOAT-FED by ElectraCute
Fandoms: Ancient Greek Religion & Lore, The Oresteia - Aeschylus, Electra - Sophocles, Electra - Euripides, The Iliad - Homer
05 Aug 2026
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The dead have little to do except remember.
Buried beneath the stones of Mycenae, the spirit of Aegisthus recalls the life that made him one of Greek mythology’s most hated villains. Raised in the household of Atreus, haunted by prophecies, torn between two fathers, and shaped by a family curse older than himself, he remembers the choices that led him to kill two kings, love one queen, and become the man the poets would condemn.
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- Part 1 of Within the Viper's Coils
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13 Jul 2026
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Dreams of Fire, an Epic Poem in Verse by ofelia_ferch_rhos
Fandoms: Ancient Greek Religion & Lore, The Iliad - Homer, The Odyssey - Homer, The Aeneid - Virgil, The Cypria - Stasinus, Epic Cycle - Fandom, Lost Ancient Poetry
30 Jun 2026
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An Epic Poem, written entirely in the iambic pentameter, telling the story of the events that precipitated the Trojan War. From Paris' birth to the landing of the Greek ships at Troy (mirroring the events and narrative of the lost Cyclic Epic of the Cypria by Stasinus).
This is the first in what will hopefully be a series of Epics that reconstruct the lost poems of the Epic Cycle, and will therefore be able to be read as companion pieces to the two Epics of Homer.This story tells an ancient pre-war story which appeals to the modern audience, over whom global war seems to be looming once again.
Here are the names of the 12 books of this Epic, 'Dreams of Fire' (also confusingly the name of the first book):Book I: Dreams of Fire
Book II: Prince of Nothing
Book III: The Catalogue of Suitors
Book IV: Song of Thebes
Book V: Oath, Alliance, and Games
Book VI: The End of Heroes
Book VII: Discord and Judgement
Book VIII: Trojan Expedition
Book IX: Calling in Favours
Book X: War in Thessaly
Book XI: Ships and Sacrifice
Book XII: BarricadesBookmarked by ggbcal
29 Jun 2026